May 5, 2016

Posted at 17:46h in Advisor Newsletter

  Below is a list of all organizations funded this year thanks to the generosity of Sonoma Wine Country Weekend.   Fund the Future: Early Childhood Literacy We believe that if children can read, they will succeed. Bellevue Union School District: Facilities Fund Community Action Partnership: Pasitos Playgroups and AVANCE Healdsburg...

January 27, 2016

Posted at 00:48h in Advisor Newsletter, Donor Newsletter

Senior Philanthropic Advisor, Kristin Nelson, experimented with her family recently. As part of a community read-along, her family followed the advice and recommendations of New York Times columnist Ron Lieber, in The Opposite of Spoiled in pursuit of raising her daughter, Poppy, as a generous and...

September 21, 2015

Posted at 22:48h in Donor Newsletter

A library in the Roseland is no longer a dream. With a matching gift from the Community Foundation Sonoma County and Foundation donors, $40,000 has been raised to secure a temporary library in a neighborhood with limited access to books, community spaces, and research opportunities. The...

July 28, 2015

Posted at 16:22h in Nonprofit Newsletter

We were once again inspired, challenged, and invigorated by the excellent speakers at this year’s ieSonoma, which featured events over two days. On Sunday evening, Community Foundation invited our donors to join us to hear Dan Pallotta speak about the importance of judging an organization’s...

May 8, 2015

Posted at 22:57h in Nonprofit Newsletter

Over the past two years, some of the best thinkers in the world have shared their ideas for innovation in education at ieSonoma: including Sir Ken Robinson and Dale Dougherty in 2013, followed by Sugata Mitra and Nirvan Mullick in 2014. This year, three dynamic speakers...

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